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  • gman
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2005
    • 676

    #1

    Self employed health insurance

    Spouse retired but has self employed taxpayer's health insurance deducted from her monthly retirement check. Is this self employed health insurance or because it is thru her former employer not deductible? Hers is entirely paid by state, but his is deducted every month. ERS
  • gman
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2005
    • 676

    #2
    ?

    Any suggestions?

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    • kathyc2
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2015
      • 1947

      #3
      As long as they are not a pre-tax deduction from retirement plan, they are deductible.

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      • TAXNJ
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2007
        • 2106

        #4
        Compliments

        Originally posted by kathyc2
        As long as they are not a pre-tax deduction from retirement plan, they are deductible.
        COMPLIMENTS to you for understanding what was posted. Read it quite a few times and still do not understand e.g., "Is this self employed health insurance or because it is thru her former employer not deductible? Hers is entirely paid by state, but his is deducted every month"

        If Hers is entirely paid by state, hers gets a deduction? Is Hers is entirely paid by state mean like one of the 50 US states or is state a company?

        Learn something new everyday.
        Last edited by TAXNJ; 02-23-2016, 04:40 PM.
        Always cite your source for support to defend your opinion

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        • Burke
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2008
          • 7068

          #5
          Same here. I could not decipher what the poster was trying to describe. It did not make sense. "Self-employed health insurance" is not deducted from a retirement check. If she pays after tax for HIS health coverage through her former employer, then it is deductible on Sche A.
          Last edited by Burke; 02-23-2016, 01:51 PM.

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          • Jiggers
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2005
            • 1973

            #6
            I don't think this would qualify as self-employed health insurance for that deduction. It would go on Schedule A, as others have said.
            Jiggers, EA

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